Security-Clearance Delays Gum Up Government

By

Robin Moroney

Aug 13, 2007 6:23 pm ET

The system for granting security clearance is gumming up the national-security system with long and costly delays despite 30 years of promises to change, Edward T. Pound writes in National Journal (subscription required). An inexperienced work force, lack of technology and bureaucratic inefficiency cause delays more than post-Sept. 11 pressure on the system, the Government […]